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Avonmore Books

Avonmore Books is an Australian publisher specialising in military and aviation history books, with a particular interest in WWII Pacific War aviation. Avonmore prides itself in being the only mainstream Australian military history publisher producing full colour illustrated books. Avonmore Books strives to produce books that are a pleasure to own and read, and which incorporate first-class aircraft profiles, artwork and maps. Many of Avonmore's titles match both Japanese and Allied records for a unique and factual account of Pacific War campaigns. This approach was recognised internationally when South Pacific Air War Volume 2 was listed as one of the best global WWII books of 2018 by the respected US book review site Stone & Stone.

Solomons Air War Volume 1 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9780645246933
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2022
Imprint: Avonmore Books
Illustrations: fully illustrated; colour
Description:
This first volume of Solomons Air War chronicles aerial warfare in the opening phase of the war in the Solomons Islands theatre, being the critical period of August-September 1942. After occupying the Solomon Islands capital of Tulagi with ease in May 1942, the Imperial Japanese Navy commenced building an airfield on the adjacent island of Guadalcanal. The indispensable airfield was over 600 miles distant from their main base of Rabaul and promised to extend the reach of their aircraft into the Allied occupied island chains of Fiji, the New Hebrides and New Caledonia.
Pacific Profiles Volume Nine Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 124
ISBN: 9780645246971
Pub Date: 15 Nov 2022
Imprint: Avonmore Books
Illustrations: fully illustrated; colour
Description:
The Pacific Profiles series presents the most accurate WWII profiles of aircraft which served throughout the South Pacific. Volume Nine covers the P-38 and variants including the photo-reconnaissance F-4 and F-5, along with field-modified P-38G night-fighters. The P-38 flew combat in the SWPA and SOPAC theatres until mid-1944, serving a total of nineteen Fifth and Thirteenth Air Force USAAF combat Squadrons, one service squadron, Fifth Fighter Command, and finally with the Combat Replacement Training Center at Nadzab.
Black Sunday Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 136
ISBN: 9780645246988
Pub Date: 15 Nov 2022
Imprint: Avonmore Books
Illustrations: fully illustrated; colour
Description:
Any USAAF pilot who flew the mission to Hollandia on the fateful afternoon of 16 April 1944 in New Guinea would remember it for the rest of their lives. So would anyone else in the theatre, for the weather-related losses that fateful day earned it the eternal epithet “Black Sunday”. The way home for more than three hundred bombers and fighters was blocked by a towering weather front whose thunderstorms rose well above any altitude they could reach.
Pacific Profiles Volume Seven Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 120
ISBN: 9780645246919
Pub Date: 01 Jul 2022
Imprint: Avonmore Books
Illustrations: Illustrated
Description:
The Pacific Profiles series presents the most accurate WWII profiles of aircraft which served in the South Pacific theatre. Volume Seven covers the Douglas C-47, including numerous derivatives such as the C-53, R4D and DC-3. This was the most universal aircraft type to appear in the South Pacific and was deployed from day one to the cessation of hostilities.
Pacific Profiles Volume Eight Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 120
ISBN: 9780645246940
Pub Date: 01 Jul 2022
Imprint: Avonmore Books
Illustrations: fully illustrated; colour
Description:
Volume Eight of the Pacific Profiles series presents the most accurate profiles and histories to date of Imperial Japanese Navy floatplanes which served in the South Pacific theatre, throughout New Guinea and the Solomons. The markings of the six floatplane types deployed in the theatre are covered: the A6M2-N Rufe, E8N2 Dave, E13A1 Jake, F1M2 Pete, E9W Slim and E7K Alf. Floatplane operations commenced in January 1942 with the invasion of Rabaul.
Pacific Profiles Volume Six Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 120
ISBN: 9780645246902
Pub Date: 15 Feb 2022
Imprint: Avonmore Books
Illustrations: Illustrated
Description:
The Pacific Profiles series presents the most accurate WWII profiles of aircraft which served in the South Pacific theatre. Volume Six covers a dozen USAAF Fifth and Thirteenth Air Force squadrons which operated the Bell P-39 and P-400 Airacobra from April 1942 until March 1944. They were used in a variety of roles including as fighters, dive-bombers and strafers.
South Pacific Air War Volume 5 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 180
ISBN: 9780648926290
Pub Date: 15 Feb 2022
Imprint: Avonmore Books
Illustrations: Illustrated
Description:
Volume Five of this series chronicles aerial warfare primarily in the New Guinea theatre in the critical period between September and December 1942. It can be read alone or as a continuation of the previous four volumes which span the first nine months of the Pacific War. By early September the strategic picture in the theatre had changed markedly within just six weeks.
Pacific Profiles - Volume Five Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 112
ISBN: 9780648926245
Pub Date: 28 Dec 2021
Imprint: Avonmore Books
Description:
Volume Five of this Pacific Profiles series presents the most accurate colour profiles to date of Japanese Navy land based Zero fighters in the "South Seas" theatre: New Guinea, Rabaul and the Solomons. Illustrated by unit are abundant examples of the varied markings, tail codes, leadership hallmarks and camouflage schemes which appeared on the thirteen Air Groups (Kokutai) operating in the theatre from February 1942 to February 1944. Each of the 113 profiles is supported by primary source material including colour photos, Japanese records, POW interrogations, technical reports, post-war wreck examinations and Allied intelligence summaries.
Pacific Profiles - Volume Four Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 112
ISBN: 9780648926238
Pub Date: 28 Dec 2021
Imprint: Avonmore Books
Description:
The Pacific Profiles series presents the most accurate WWII profiles to date of aircraft which served in the Pacific theatre. Volume Four focuses on the US Navy, US Marine Corps and RNZAF squadrons which operated land based F4U series Corsair fighters throughout the Solomons theatre from February 1943 onwards. The distinctive markings schemes, unit heraldry and nose art varied considerably between models and squadrons, the latter of which developed their own particular markings themes and patterns.
Nemoto's Travels Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 116
ISBN: 9780648926252
Pub Date: 05 Jun 2021
Imprint: Avonmore Books
Description:
This is the illustrated diary of Imperial Japanese Navy floatplane pilot Warrant Officer Nemoto Kumesako, dating from the early months of the Pacific War. His recollections offer an intimate perspective into his life, along with insights into Japanese thinking of the times. Unusually, these memoirs are presented in a style consistent with the Japanese manga (illustrated cartoon) format.
Pacific Adversaries - Volume Four Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 112
ISBN: 9780648926221
Pub Date: 05 Jun 2021
Imprint: Avonmore Books
Description:
This Volume Four of Pacific Adversaries conveys detailed stories of aerial warfare in the Solomons theatre, chosen because both Japanese and Allied records can be matched for an accurate accounting. Often the actual outcomes are very different to the exaggerated claims made by both sides as outlined in most traditional histories. In some cases, this factual approach enables long-standing mysteries to be solved.
Eagles over Darwin Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 140
ISBN: 9780648665984
Pub Date: 28 Mar 2021
Imprint: Avonmore Books
Illustrations: fully illustrated; colour
Description:
In 1942 the air defence of the northern Australian frontier town of Darwin was operated by airmen from the United States.That year was very nearly the end of Australia as a country. To those men the present nation owes a debt.
Pacific Profiles - Volume Three Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 100
ISBN: 9780648926207
Pub Date: 28 Mar 2021
Imprint: Avonmore Books
Description:
The Pacific Profiles series presents the most accurate WWII aircraft profiles to date of Japanese & Allied aircraft in the Pacific theatre. Volume Three illustrates, by squadron, USAAF Fifth Air Force A-20 series medium bombers operating in New Guinea from July 1942 to the end of 1944. In this distant theatre, a dozen USAAF A-20 squadrons from the 3rd, 312th and 417th Bombardment Groups, joined by No.
Pacific Profiles - Volume Two Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 100
ISBN: 9780648665991
Pub Date: 28 Jan 2021
Imprint: Avonmore Books
Illustrations: fully illustrated; colour
Description:
The Pacific Profiles series presents the most accurate WWII aircraft profiles to date of Japanese & Allied aircraft in the Pacific theatre. Volume Two illustrates, by unit, Japanese Army Air Force (JAAF) bomber and other supporting aircraft types operating in New Guinea and the Solomons from December 1942 to April 1944. In this distant theatre many different aircraft types and their variants were assigned to a variety of bomber, reconnaissance, command and transport units which together formed the 4th Air Army.
South Pacific Air War Volume 4 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9780648665977
Pub Date: 28 Jan 2021
Imprint: Avonmore Books
Illustrations: fully illustrated; colour
Description:
Volume Four chronicles aerial warfare in the South Pacific in the critical period between 19 June and 8 September 1942. It can be read alone or as a continuation of the first three volumes that spanned the first six months of the Pacific War, culminating in the Battle of the Coral Sea. Unlike the previous three volumes, no aircraft carriers appeared in New Guinea waters.
Darwin's Air War 1942-1945 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 262
ISBN: 9780980771305
Pub Date: 01 Jul 2020
Imprint: Avonmore Books
Illustrations: fully illustrated; colour
Description:
Revised and vastly improved edition of a book first published in 1991. Indeed this is virtually a new book compared to the original. It remains the most authoritative work on Darwin’s air war, and has been compiled from a wide range of sources worldwide, including Japan.
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